# TX Words WPF Sample Application > TX Words for WPF: the base window with a menu and button bar, nine ribbon samples such as Reporting and User Access, and where to find them. - **Product:** TX Text Control .NET for WPF - **Section:** Documentation - **Kind:** Topic - **Path:** TX Text Control .NET for WPF > Examples > TX Words WPF Sample Application - **1553 words** - **Web URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/examples/tx-words/ - **LLMs URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/examples/tx-words/llms.txt - **LLMs-Full URL:** https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/examples/tx-words/llms-full.txt --- TX Words is a word processor built with TX Text Control .NET for WPF, and its source code is the largest sample that comes with the product. It shows how the `TextControl`, the ribbon tabs, the sidebars, the ruler bars and the status bar fit together in one application, so you can take the parts you need into your own. If you are about to build an editor window, reading TX Words first shows you a working arrangement of all components. ### What TX Words Is Since version 31.0, TX Words is not one application but a set of projects that build on each other: - **The base project**, *TX Text Control WPF Words*, is a window with a classic menu (File, Edit, View, Insert, Format and Table), a button bar, two ruler bars, a status bar and a [TextControl](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/reference/txtextcontrol-wpf/textcontrol/llms-full.txt). - **Nine ribbon samples** follow. The Ribbon sample is a ribbon window with the application menu, the quick access toolbar, contextual tabs and sidebars. The other eight are built on it and each adds one topic; each of them contains a copy of the Ribbon sample's classes in the folder *Base*. The following picture shows the Conditional Instructions sample, one of the nine: the ribbon with the **Form Fields** tab and the contextual **Table Tools** tabs, a booking form in the `TextControl`, the conditional instructions sidebar on the right and the status bar. ![TX Text Control Words for WPF with the Form Fields tab of the ribbon, a booking request form in the editor and the Conditional Instructions sidebar listing the rules of the form and the conditions and actions of the selected rule.](https://docs.textcontrol.com/assets/img/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/conditional-instr-sidebar.e7bf0dc0.webp) Text Control split TX Words this way so that each sample is easier to understand and its modules are easier to reuse. At run time, each sample shows a [Sidebar](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/reference/txtextcontrol-wpf/sidebar/llms-full.txt) whose [ContentLayout](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/reference/txtextcontrol-wpf/sidebar/contentlayout-property/llms-full.txt) is `About`, with an explanation of what the sample does. The blog article [Windows Forms and WPF Comeback: .NET 6 and 7. Our Commitment to Windows Applications](https://www.textcontrol.com/blog/2022/08/17/windows-forms-and-wpf-comeback-net-6-and-7-our-commitment-to-windows-applications/) introduced the split. ### Where to Find It - **Installed by the setup.** The setup of TX Text Control .NET for WPF copies the samples of the current version into your *Documents* folder: *TX Text Control 34.0.NET for WPF\\CSharp\\TX Words* for C# and *VB.NET\\TX Words* for Visual Basic, one folder per sample. See [Installing the Product](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/installation/setup/llms-full.txt). - **On GitHub.** The folder *TX Words* of [TXSamples\_WPF\_CSharp](https://github.com/TextControl/TXSamples_WPF_CSharp) and [TXSamples\_WPF\_VB.NET](https://github.com/TextControl/TXSamples_WPF_VB.NET) contains the same projects, each for the .NET Framework 4.8 and for .NET 6. The GitHub projects were last updated for version 32.0; [GitHub Examples](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/examples/github/#update-an-older-sample) describes how to bring them to the current version. ### The Samples All samples are available in C# and Visual Basic. On GitHub, they are written for version 32.0, for the .NET Framework 4.8 and .NET 6: | Example | What it shows | Where | |---|---|---| | TX Text Control WPF Words | The base word processor: a menu, a [ButtonBar](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/reference/txtextcontrol-wpf/buttonbar/llms-full.txt), two [RulerBar](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/reference/txtextcontrol-wpf/rulerbar/llms-full.txt) controls and a [StatusBar](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/reference/txtextcontrol-wpf/statusbar/llms-full.txt) around the `TextControl` | [TXSamples\_WPF\_CSharp](https://github.com/TextControl/TXSamples_WPF_CSharp), folder *TX Words* | | Ribbon | All components in one ribbon application: the application menu with recent files, the quick access toolbar, the ribbon tabs of TX Text Control, three sidebars, the ruler bars, the status bar and contextual tabs | [TXSamples\_WPF\_CSharp](https://github.com/TextControl/TXSamples_WPF_CSharp), folder *TX Words* | | Reporting | A template designed with a sample XML database: merge fields and merge blocks, the field navigation sidebar, and merging and exporting the results | [TXSamples\_WPF\_CSharp](https://github.com/TextControl/TXSamples_WPF_CSharp), folder *TX Words* | | Conditional Instructions | A form whose fields depend on each other, a preview mode and a protected form in which only the form fields can be edited; [Conditional Instructions](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/document-processing/conditional-instructions/llms-full.txt) builds the same kind of rules | [TXSamples\_WPF\_CSharp](https://github.com/TextControl/TXSamples_WPF_CSharp), folder *TX Words* | | Context Menu | A new item in the built-in context menu of frames, added in the [TextContextMenuOpening](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/reference/txtextcontrol-wpf/textcontrol/textcontextmenuopening-event/llms-full.txt) event | [TXSamples\_WPF\_CSharp](https://github.com/TextControl/TXSamples_WPF_CSharp), folder *TX Words* | | Drag And Drop | Documents loaded and images inserted when a user drops a file on the editor, with [AllowDrag](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/reference/txtextcontrol-wpf/textcontrol/allowdrag-property/llms-full.txt) and [AllowDrop](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/reference/txtextcontrol-wpf/textcontrol/allowdrop-property/llms-full.txt) | [TXSamples\_WPF\_CSharp](https://github.com/TextControl/TXSamples_WPF_CSharp), folder *TX Words* | | Open Hyperlink | Links to a web page, to a target in the same document, which [DocumentLinkClicked](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/reference/txtextcontrol-wpf/textcontrol/documentlinkclicked-event/llms-full.txt) scrolls to, and to another file | [TXSamples\_WPF\_CSharp](https://github.com/TextControl/TXSamples_WPF_CSharp), folder *TX Words* | | Right To Left | A button that restarts the application with the opposite flow direction | [TXSamples\_WPF\_CSharp](https://github.com/TextControl/TXSamples_WPF_CSharp), folder *TX Words* | | Shortcuts | Keyboard shortcuts of your own, such as switching between insert and overwrite mode, handled in the `KeyDown` event | [TXSamples\_WPF\_CSharp](https://github.com/TextControl/TXSamples_WPF_CSharp), folder *TX Words* | | User Access | A write-protected document with editable regions for each user; comments and tracked changes are assigned to the signed-in user | [TXSamples\_WPF\_CSharp](https://github.com/TextControl/TXSamples_WPF_CSharp), folder *TX Words* | The Visual Basic versions are in the same folders of [TXSamples\_WPF\_VB.NET](https://github.com/TextControl/TXSamples_WPF_VB.NET). ### Find a Sample by Topic - The ribbon and the sidebars: [Ribbon and Sidebar Examples](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/examples/ribbon-sidebar/llms-full.txt). - Templates and merging, as in the Reporting sample: [Mail Merge Examples](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/examples/mail-merge/llms-full.txt). - Context menus, keyboard shortcuts, drag and drop and right-to-left text in the editor: [Document Editor Examples](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/examples/document-editor/llms-full.txt). ### Next Steps - [GitHub Examples](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/examples/github/llms-full.txt): run a sample from GitHub and update it to the current version. - [Create a WPF Ribbon Application](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/getting-started/document-editor/ribbon/llms-full.txt): build a ribbon window like the one of the Ribbon sample, step by step. - [Examples](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/examples/llms-full.txt): the other examples of TX Text Control .NET for WPF. --- ## Nearby - **Previous:** [Examples](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/examples/llms-full.txt) - **Next:** [GitHub Examples](https://docs.textcontrol.com/tx-text-control-dotnet-wpf/examples/github/llms-full.txt)